Improved bedstead



`Improvements in Bedsteads and I do hereby' declare that the following same, reference being had to the annexed drawings forming guitar tstw stmt fft..

JOHN (JCLIMEfoF PHlLADnLPHIA, PENNSYLVANI'A, AssIeNoR To H1M sELl` AND J. Moonn HENDRIGKS, or SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 75,527, ddfed March 17, 1868.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN 0'. CLIME, of Philadelphi, Pennsylt'ania, have invrcnted certain new and useful is a. full a-ml exact description of the part hereof, and to the letters ofreference mm'kcd thereon, in which drewings- Figure 1is aperspe'ctive view of bedsteads with my Vimprovements applied thereto. Figura 2 is a. longitiIdinel Vertical-section of, the same on the line w y of lig. 1. K My invcntion consists first,lof a. certain arran'gement and combination of sluts, supporting-bar, and 'en edjustable s'upporting-bar, placednt the hee of the bedstead' ment of' a hollow perfornted tube, to contain camphor or other disinfecting-agentw In the drawings, the parts marked .A are stifl' woorlen slots, with n'otchcs, a, slot'at the two enfls thereof. B are springs, formed as shown. form loops, which take hold of the notches a in the slats. T each of the slots A, and also at ahoutthemirldle of the le ahout'two feet six inccs from the h'ead-rail; o O is a bar, that' their projectingerms' extend in/opposite directions, hedstead .are attached to moable barD, which, being act F is a. perforated hollow tube, inserted throu camphor, or. any otherdisinfecting Ha'ving thus described` my in coil springs, a. midlle formel in the body of each i The projecting arms or leyci's b b of the springs he Springs B are .applied at the head and` foot of ngth of the slots; that is, in a full-sized bed, at to support the middle springs,vwhich are so arrnnged as shown in fig. 2. Thesprings at the head of the ed upon by thumb-scre\vs, tighten 'or relax the Springs. gh th'e coils of the springs B. This tube is inte'uded to' "contain -agent, the otlor of whichescopes through the perforations d, shown in fig. 1

vention, I do not claim the edjustable bars D, slats A, springsrB, or middle supporting-hnr O, seperatel, b'ut I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The arrangement of the 'notched slots A, coil Springs B, middle supportinghars D, when theseseveral parts are constructed suhstantinlly as shownvand deserbe 2. I claim the perforated hollow tube F in combination with the coil Springs bar C, and adjustnble hondd, for the purposc speificl. 13, substantially as set forth.

. i JOHN o. oLIM'E. Witnesses:

W. A. A. MoKINLnY, J. H. MYEns.

, second, in the employ- 

